16 noviembre, 2012

Shanghai, China - International Conference 2012

Technology, society
and the importance of East-West Coexistence for innovation and sustainability

Professor David Wheeler

Plymouth
University. United Kingdom

The world faces deepening crises of environmental
degradation, global poverty and economic uncertainty (Juniper, 2012).
Meanwhile, meeting the needs of a world of 9 billion people in 2050 will
require significant levels of technological and a social ingenuity to satisfy
(Hart, 2005). The scale of the transformation that is required to more
resilient and sustainable social, economic and ecological systems that will be
required in coming decades is enormous. It will require almost total
decarbonisation of the energy supply and transportation industries and a revolution in food and water production and
distribution efficiencies, in addition to social system that raise billons of
people out of poverty.

In this context, the celebration of some commentators
(Fukuyama, 1993) in the “defeat” of communism and the “triumph” of liberal
western democracy has now been exposed as both premature and inaccurate
(Wheeler et al, 2010). The continuing
stagnation of capitalist economies in Europe and the US, built on unsustainable
levels of debt and demand exposes the current western model of capitalism as
inadequate –on its own- to deliver the transformation required.

In this presentation I will draw inspiration from
centuries of scholarchip, innovation and technological creativity en East Asia
(Menzies, 2008), South Asia and the Middle East. And I will argue tha the world
now needs a new synthesis of East-West and North-South wisdom to secure global
environmental, social and economic sustainability. This synthesis will not be
generated by those existing structures and system that have failed to deliver
global sustainability to date. In achieving this new synthesis, no single
system of beliefs or social organization is likely to deliver all the answer.
Instead, scholar and policymakers must strive to challenge each other in a
creative and inquiring way, sharing knowledge and learning from each other`s
perspectives.

I will also draw on system thinking and theories of
entrepreneurship to advocate for practical and actionable initiatives in
East-West co-existence for innovation and sustainability. These will include
opportunities for innovation in management education (Kurucz et al, 2012), opportunities for
innovation en industrial cooperation, and opportunities for technological
innovation that meet the needs of global society and the environment.

Shanghai, October 29th, 2012

Management of Technology
in the University of Peru

Nemesio Espinoza.

Universidad
Nacional Mayor de San Marcos (Lima-Peru)

Science and Technology
offers competitive advantages for the construction of the economic
and social progress of countries with human development. Human development
means essentially providing the population higher standards of living (food,
education, health and housing).

Although Science,
Technology and Innovation can also be used to cause harm (e.g. military
science and technology), they are an absolutely necessary condition to
promote the development of humanity. Today, at the dawn of a new century
and a new millennium, there can be no human development without science
and technology.

Prosperous countries in the
world are the countries that have kept pace with scientific and
technological progress.

Peru, is a country of great
advantages expressed in their natural wealth and biodiversity. However,
there is still poverty and extreme poverty because Science and Technology
are not part of the national culture and, consequently, Peru still lacks of
competitive advantages for its development.

In this context, it is a
must for the Peruvian University to play a leading role in the
production of Science and Technology. However, Peruvian University is
highly professionalizing; Science and Technology are not matter of great
importance.

The university, by its
inherent nature, is a cloister of Scientific Research, a producer of science
and technology. The University is the main formative influence on scientists;
it teaches, produces and disseminates science; builds knowledge; manages
and transfers technology. In Peru, the university, for being eminently
professionalizing, does not produce science or technology in the quality
and levels that today times require. In the Peruvian University, production and
management of science and technology are not priority activities. That is
why none of the universities in Peru appear in the rankings of the best
universities in the world. The world's best universities, noted for
their scientific and technological production, are from the most advanced
countries (U.S., EU and Asia). In Latin America, these universities are
from Argentina, Brazil, Mexico and Chile.

If Peruvian University does
not research, not produces science, technology and innovation and is
limited only to manufacturing professionals, it is easy to deduce that its
professional training is not good. It cannot be good because today
professional competitiveness is associated with Science
and Technology.

The reality described in
the previous paragraph also corroborates the fact that Peruvian university
is excluded in the world and in Latin America. If the countries of the most important scientists
communities of the world (U.S., England, Japan, Germany, Israel, China People,
Brazil, Mexico, Chile, Argentina, etc..) appear in the global rankings of
Science and Technology is because their universities (Harvard, Cambridge,
Jiaotong University, University of Tokyo, Berlin, Jerusalem, Sao
Paulo, UNAM, Chile, Buenos Aires, etc..) investigate, produce, manage and
disseminate science, technology and innovation. These universities
discover, invent, create.

In Peru, none of the
universities stand out, even at the regional level, in terms of what the
production of science, technology and innovation in the XXI century and the
third millennium are. Peru does not appear in the global statistics on
science and technology, because its universities, that must primarily
develop scientific research, do not produce it.

For these reasons, there is
the need in Peru of a restructuring of the university, through the recognition of its
important role in the production and management of Science and Technology,
and as a part of a national state policy that contributes to the gradual
construction of a new society with sustained national scientific culture.

Shanghai, October 29th, 2012

Speakers of the International Conference,
Shanghai 2012

The impact of technological Innovation Capabilities
on product strategy and firm performance: an empirical investigation in China

Dr. Juan Shan

School of Management,
Shanghai University

This paper examines how technological
innovation capabilities (TICs) affect product strategy and firm performance. In
doing so, we draw on innovation management literature to justify the influence
that the firm`s technological activity has on their product strategy and firm
performance. In addition, we use concepts derived from literature on technological
innovation to identify different capabilities that firms may develop to manage
their innovation process. i.e., those related to investment, production and
linkage.

These are the basis of our hypothesis in
which TICs identified are related to firm`s product innovation and global
performance. Empirical work is carried out on a sample of 215 firms in Chinese
electronic industry.

We use structural equation modeling to test
our research hypothesis. Our findings show that TICs have a positive impact on
product innovation and the product innovation exerts also a positive influence
on firm performance. However, TICs don`t exert any influence direct on firm
performance. Thus product innovation plays a mediating role between TICs and
firm performance. Implications of the findings for both academics and
practitioner are examined.

It is generally agreed that the two major
issues facing the world economic system today are the globalization and
technological change. Both of them create and foreclose opportunities for the
emerging countries to enhance their technological innovation capabilities
(TICs) which are considered as the main driver of competitiveness and long-term
economic development.

The People’s Republic of China has long been
caught in the balancing act between accelerated growth and associated
environmental as well as social effects eventually even con-straining further
economic expansion. Nowadays, the authorities have been proactively pressing
claim on restructuring the economy towards a more sustainable trajectory.
China’s emerging industrialization shall hence be increasingly subject to
compliance with environmental and social concerns. Innovation is thereby not
only attributed a key function in contributing to fulfillment of government
sustainability targets. In particular –further- developing indigenous
innovation capabilities in technology is recognized to be crucial to enhancing
national competitiveness. Accordingly, the 12th Five-Year Plan
(2011-2015) now puts special emphasis on the promotion of seven “Strategic
Emerging Industries” (SEIs) where Chinese firms are intended to succeed on a
global scale –of which three are devoted to the environment and energy sector: ·Energy Efficiency and
Environment”, “New Energy Vehicles”, and “New Energy”. Most notably,
purposively boosting innovation in the domestic photovoltaic and wind power
industries pertains to the government’s key development priorities for –more-
sustainable industrial growth. In the course of this dissertation project we
intend to shed more light on the way in which China’s technology ambitions are
put into practice at the firm level. More specifically, we aim to comparatively
investigate the strategies green energy firms in the photovoltaic and wind
power industries consider for building eco-innovation capabilities.

Shanghai, October 30th, 2012

Keynote speaker profile and speech:

The post 2015 development
agenda: Reconciling technological and sustainable advance

MBA at crossroad: Integration of Western management
with Eastern Philosophy

Professor Yan Xu

Executive Dean, Business
School Director of EMBA

Professor Regina Huang

Vice Dean of Business
School East China University

of Science and Technology

Shanghai, October 30th, 2012

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How to arrive from Lima to
Shanghai (China)

It’s a long way. It takes 23 hours of flight

This is route: Lima – Amsterdam (Holanda) /
Amsterdam – Shanghai. From Lima to
Amsterdam it takes 12 hours of flight. 9 hours flight over the sea (Ocean
Atlantic). From Amsterdam to Shanghai it takes 11 hours of flight over Asia.

Shanghaiis the largest city by population in
the People’s Republic of Chinaand
the largest cityby population in
the world. Have a total population of over 25 million.It is a global city, with influence in
commerce, culture, finance, media, fashion, technology, and transport. It is a
major financial centerand the
busiest container port in the world.

How to arrive from Shanghai
to Beijing (Pekin)

I've gone from Shangahai to Beijing by train.
It takes 5 hours at a rate of 300K/H in modern train.

Pekín (or Beijing) is the capital of thePeople’s
Republic of Chinaand one
of the most populous cities in the world.
Beijing is the second largest Chinese city by urbanafter Shanghaiand is the nation's political,
cultural and educational center.

The Mao’s picture at the Forbidden City (Imperial
Palace), in the historic Tiananmen Square.Mao Tse Tung (or Mao Zedong) was the great lider of China. In 1949
created the People’s Republic of China with Communist Party of China.

The Great Wall. The Great Wall symbolizing China’s ancient
civilization is one of the world’s most renowned projects. Construction of the
wall began during the 7th century B.C. It’s total length is more
than 6,700 kilometers.

In the picture I’m in the Great Wall (at
Badaling Section). It’s 14.00 pm (02 am in Lima). You see the snow, in that
condition impossible to walk on the Wall of China. I felt a great admiration
for the great work of the chinese people.